I r confuzzled!!!

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Hey guys, really really really need your help here :cool:

Installed vista last night on my PC, did a clean install (deleted all the files).

I was installing programs like anti-virus, firewall, msn and all that lot and all of a sudden my PC got the blue screen of death, but i did not have enough time to read it before the pc restarted. The pc restarted and as vista was loading up it was install patches it had downloaded before the pc crashed, and then boom in the "updating settings" or something it crashed again with the blue screen, pc restarted, crashed.

So i then turned it off, and then the most messed up thing happened, it wouldnt turn back on :eek:.

It starts, but does not boot i guess, all i get is the hum of the pc and it just doesnt click to the next stage.... now i fail to see how this happened? at first i thought it was a messed up Hard Drive so i put my old one in there and nothing happened then.

So now im stuck with a computer at home which wont boot, i have unplugged everything, took it all out the case, put back in and still no luck.

The only reason i thought it was my hard drive was because that is what happened last time, back the fact i tried an old one and that failed to work im lost.

The thing is im not very good with after care, i can put them together but when something goes wrong like this im stuck lol.

I am tempted to buy another pc unless anyone can come up with any ideas? The only idea i can come up with is trying the Hard drive from my dads pc which has windows installed on it and just trying that, but then it leaves my dad my with no pc for a while and i dont want to loose any data he has on hes.

Sorry for the long post but i am completly stuck and would prefer not buying/building a new pc, any advice would be grately recieved as im willing to try everything!!

Thanks,
Chris

*Atm i blame it all on vista, it never liked me in the installtion process where is crashed 3 times :P*
 
Confuzzled! The fake word which can never be over used! :D

Strip the PC back to the essentials - board, CPU, RAM and nothing else and see if it starts, you should get a "non system disk" error or perhaps some guff of it trying to boot from the onboard LAN but that's what you want. If you can get that far attach a CD or a floppy and get a copy of memtest running on it for at least 8 hours. If you can't get the system to boot with the minimum in then try different combinations of RAM sticks and slots, make sure you have the case speaker attached in case your RAM's died and the PC is trying to beep at you.
 
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